I really enjoyed the OSBC 2005 conference. Met a lot of people. If I write about everyone that I met, the next few weeks will be only about this topic 🙂 My meeting with Doug Kaye, the founder of IT Conversations was very very interesting. IT conversations puts together recordings from conferences such as OSBC… Continue reading
Date Archives → April 2005
Commoditization – Car rentals (courtesy: Doc Searls)
I am attending the Open Source Business conference today and tomorrow. Open source is a key focus area for our company CIGNEX and it was definitely a good decision to attend OSBC 2005. One of the highlights of the conference was that I met with Doc Searls. I wanted to meet Doc for a long… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #17 Engage with a coach
Let me see. What I really mean is we should seriously engage with one or more mentors or coaches for our life and business. Sports people have figured this out long back. It works and we just have to experience it to believe it. In my last post, I talked about the need to ask… Continue reading
Ways to distinguish yourself – #16 Ask the right questions
Questions have great power. One right question asked at the right time can change the direction of our lives. Hence, the quality of the questions that we ask ourselves is VERY important. It is for the same reason that we need to choose our company very carefully. With the right people around us, for some reason… Continue reading
Details matter
The other day I was trying to download my credit card statements into an excel sheet from citibank’s online service. It was an interesting experience. Whatever date range I specified, the service kept refusing to “serve” me and the only thing that was consistent was the error message“We are sorry. You can only retrieve activity… Continue reading